- The
other main branch, Pseudosuchia,
includes modern crocodilians.
Aphanosaurs possessed features from both groups,
indicating that they are the oldest...
- and
plesiomorphic ("primitive")
known avemetatarsalians were the
aphanosaurs.
Aphanosaurs were rare, four-legged
carnivores which were only
properly distinguished...
- Tanzania, and
include Asilisaurus (an
early silesaurid),
Teleocrater (an
aphanosaur), and
Nyasasaurus (a
possible early dinosaur).[citation needed] Synapsids...
- crocodile-bird split.
Mambachiton was a
similar size to the
Tanzanian aphanosaur Teleocrater,
which was
about 7–10 feet (2.1–3.0 m) in body length. Osteoderms...
- a non-dinosaurian
reptile Spondylosoma –
subsequently found to be an
aphanosaur Squalodon –
subsequently found to be a
cetacean Staurikosaurus Stegoceras...
-
ridge of bone
running down its
posterior margin, a
feature only
found in
aphanosaurs and silesaurids. The
coracoid is
small and rounded, and
forms a down...
- of
other early-diverging archosaurs,
including potential relatives (
aphanosaurs and early-diverging loricatans). The
axial skeleton of Incertovenator...
-
specimens of Dromomeron, and a
similar structure is also
present in
aphanosaurs,
albeit separate from
their equivalent of the
anterior trochanter. As...
-
contains modern-day
crocodilians and
their extinct relatives), and the
aphanosaur (primitive stem-bird) Spondylosoma. Martinelli, A. G.; Soares, M. B.;...
- with dicynodonts, cynognathians, probainognathians, pseudosuchians,
aphanosaurs, rhynchosaurs, and procolophonoids. The
Brazilian Dinodontosaurus ****emblage...
